Medical condition | Presumptions shall not apply | Presumption shall apply |
Heart problems experienced within seventy-two hours of exposure to smoke, fumes, or toxic substance | Current smoker | Firefighters that never smoked tobacco |
Former smoker who last smoked less than two years prior to the cardiac event | Former smoker who last smoked two years or more prior to the cardiac event | |
Asthma | Current smoker | Firefighters that never smoked tobacco |
Former smoker who last smoked less than five years before date of manifestation of the disease | Former smoker who last smoked five years or more before date of manifestation of the disease | |
COPD/emphysema/chronic bronchitis | Current smoker | Firefighters that never smoked tobacco |
Former smoker who last smoked less than fifteen years before date of manifestation of the disease | Former smoker who last smoked fifteen years or more before date of manifestation of the disease | |
Lung cancer | Current smoker | Firefighters that never smoked |
Former smoker who last smoked less than fifteen years before date of manifestation of the disease | Former smoker who last smoked fifteen years or more before date of manifestation of the disease |